do want to know why it is treated as an emergency? because the average person can't afford non Emergency room care. their health insurance doesn't cover it affordably.
It is cheaper to go to the ER, than to visit a regular doctor. The fact that my health insurance has gone 640% over the last 10 years and i have had exactly one claim against it and they denied half of it anyways.
It would have been cheaper for me and for the doctor if I paid the doctors directly than to make that one claim. That is the problem with the US health care system. it is better to be uninsured and pay the doctors as you need too than to actually have health insurance.
Canada had nukes until the mid 80's, and they have dozens of nuclear reactors through out the country, with at least 6 of them within 75 miles of where I am currently sitting.
As for commonwealth status, Canada has been independant from british control for decades, while the queen is still head of state she has about as much say as all the other voters.
japan and the ukraine both have strong reasons not to have nuclear weapons.
Canada really don't need to have their own as any attack on canada is just as bad as attacking the USA anyways. (most canadian cities are near the US borders).
South Korea has external pressure not to piss off the people 50 miles away.
The electric car won't exist in more than a handful of cases until a power source for it is setup.
And no 90% of windows apps can't handle multiple instances. start with MSFT Office. two users can't log into the same computer at the same time and both run MS word without a third party controlling things.
exactly. Piracy is an economic problem. If you have piracy then you have an major imbalance in your supply and demand chain. Try to fix that first before blaming everyone else.
People wanted portable music files on their computers and they got them where ever they could. movies, ebooks etc offer what they people really want and they will mostly buy the legal copies.
Even in somlia the piracy is an economic problem. 20 hijackers get a million plus dollars for 2-3 months of work. it breaks down to each getting some $20,000 who then spend that money on the locals $20,000 for three months work isn't bad by USA standards in somlia it worth a lot more. especially since one can't get harmed by international maritime law. They feed you a meal better than you have had in weeks, give you a quiet place to sleep while they detain you for a while and then let you go.
Solve the economic demand side of the product and realize that your not supplying things that there are honest markets for.
it is a standard MSFT tactic, announce something awesome and deliver something that is barely good enough. Not even slashdot is big enough to list every product MSFT has announced but failed to actually implement. It has been in use for so long it is the reason most people are tired of MSFT. It is also why the Opposite of MSFT Apple gets so much free press for product that they haven't even announced yet. Apple lets the rumor mill drive forward occasionally shutting down one source only to fuel the frenzy even more. However apple only announces real products with the feature sets fixed. (there are exceptions)
Next week MSFT engineers will announce an FTL drive coming in the next 10-20 years just to stay ahead of the stuff they have already promised.
There is a better device for that now. a much more advanced throat mic.http://focus.ti.com/pr/docs/preldetail.tsp?sectionId=594&prelId=sc08029
It records the signals that you actually send to the voice box and outputs that. It is less invasive and can be used in a VVOX setup to remote control objects without worrying that someone else will over hear the commands or try to shout commands for you.
So your saying the developers of developers tools on windows also are ignorant about limited user accounts. On any *nix I can install most apps in my own home directory with only my user rights for my use. Those apps can't then be used by others unless I allow it. On Windows every developer assumes you have full admin rights for all apps. That is a bad mindset and needs to be fixed at all levels of developers.
does she have cable TV? if so then adding VOIP is as easy as plugging in a couple of boxes un hooking the phone lines from the telecom network and tying in the VOIP lines into the house phone grid. Add in a UPS to power the cable modem, and VOIP hub and you have the same as you do now. At least from grandma's point of view.
the pots line at my companies main office goes down every time it rains from the north east.
POTS lines are so bad that as they lose customers they just keep moving people to the inner lines as the copper goes bad. I knwo some sections of cities that can't get DSL even though they are 500 from the trunk. why? the copper is so bad and their neighbors have all the good lines already used up.
isn't that the point? if the developers have to develop for a multi user and limited rights user OS they will actually build software that obeys those constraints.
I hold that windows isn't a true multi user OS until 90% of the software that runs on it can be used by a limited account. Look at any *nix. not only can you run one app under multiple users at the same time(something most windows app fail at) but all those apps are limited the privilieges of the user in question.
Yes there are apps that require different rights. but windows developers for the most part don't understand the difference between admin and limited accounts.
Maybe if they were forced to develop in such enviroments they would under the limits.
yea but with ebooks technically letting your wife read the book is illegal and wrong and she has to buy her own copy.
40 years from now your kids are all grown up, and you pass away in your sleep. As they go through your stuff, they pick up the tom clancy paper backs and think about how you used to read them. Or they find a non working ebook reader and the DRM prevents them from knowing what kind of books you liked to read.
Pick one. It will happen. no one lives for ever. Memories must be preserved some how. DRM laden technology will prevent it.
I got to use the driod last week. while there are some cool features, it doesn't beat my iphone by a far margin. The first being a responsive screen. It would take 2-3 tries to unlock the phone. the touch sensor just didn't want to hang on to the unlock bar as i slid my finger. There were a couple of cool apps, but the browser was slower to use(not the speed of the download which varies a lot no matter which provider you use.) but scrolling pages wasn't always smooth.
I have other nitpicks about the hardware(I don't like it feeling like a brick, just round the damn edges) however the software wouldn't pass a 0.5 release for an apple product. Apple wouldn't release the whole phone until after little things like a responsive interface is fixed first.
While AT&T annoy me, apple makes sure they get the little details right the first time. My current AT&T contract is up in 7 months. I will keep my eyes on andriod phones, however I do know one fact. Only apple is anal enough about interfaces to make them useable and consistent. No one else in the consumer industry even bothers to try. It is one reason why apple products tend to be smashing successes. and is usually why when they have failures, it is the cause.
I have one candy bar phone that has been dunked in water three times, and is still running strong enough that my mother uses it now daily. A cheap reliable form comes in multiple styles.
now I am careful to not dunk my iphone but even that has survived a 12 foot fall onto concrete with only a scratch on the case, okay maybe a slight dent. but no cracked screen.
Also my iphone isn't the companies but mine, I don't use it to check work related information unless I am actually getting paid by work to be there. the email is my own personal account.
While the tablet will be cool it is running iphoneOS which meansno flash. While not having flash is good for the small screened iPhone nothaving it on a larger device just wontgo over well.
How do I know it is running iphoneos? Apple putout a developers call to make sure iPhone apps wereusing resolution independant API and widgets. Dont assume the screensize is 320x240.
There is over a hundred different tax rates in NY state alone. The company I work for has seven different locations in seven different counties. Any one can come to us and buy stuff. However since we do somuch business around the state we have to deal with taxes to the point where one of our accountants (out of three) spends half of her week justkeeping it straight. Failure is expensive. You see when the state audits you they take a sample of errors made and multiply that by the number of years they go back. It doesn't matter if that sample is accurate. So multi million dollar fines are the norm.
If a local company has to hire a person just to manage the problem amazon will have to hire 100. Not that amazon can't but tax law is so complicated lawyers have given up trying to figure it out
hey designers the flip phone is so last century. The brick format is far superior, allowing larger screen size, larger batteries, and larger buttons. not to mention the abaility to push a button to accept a call, not to have to use both hands too open the damned thing.
flip phone suffer from breakage, and weak points in their overall designs(hinges can break) As much as I like retro old school toys please stop making them.
Not everyone likes the same things. I have owned several of each style and i always seem to fall back to brick phones.
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do want to know why it is treated as an emergency? because the average person can't afford non Emergency room care. their health insurance doesn't cover it affordably.
It is cheaper to go to the ER, than to visit a regular doctor. The fact that my health insurance has gone 640% over the last 10 years and i have had exactly one claim against it and they denied half of it anyways.
It would have been cheaper for me and for the doctor if I paid the doctors directly than to make that one claim. That is the problem with the US health care system. it is better to be uninsured and pay the doctors as you need too than to actually have health insurance.
Well the difference is now the vast majority of computer support IPV 6 with minor updates(even windows XP but that is the one that needs the updates)
what is lacking is the networking gear itself. though i am not sure how much of that is IPV 6 ready and just not switched on.
Canada had nukes until the mid 80's, and they have dozens of nuclear reactors through out the country, with at least 6 of them within 75 miles of where I am currently sitting.
As for commonwealth status, Canada has been independant from british control for decades, while the queen is still head of state she has about as much say as all the other voters.
japan and the ukraine both have strong reasons not to have nuclear weapons.
Canada really don't need to have their own as any attack on canada is just as bad as attacking the USA anyways. (most canadian cities are near the US borders).
South Korea has external pressure not to piss off the people 50 miles away.
you missed the sarcasm.
The electric car won't exist in more than a handful of cases until a power source for it is setup.
And no 90% of windows apps can't handle multiple instances. start with MSFT Office. two users can't log into the same computer at the same time and both run MS word without a third party controlling things.
exactly. Piracy is an economic problem. If you have piracy then you have an major imbalance in your supply and demand chain. Try to fix that first before blaming everyone else.
People wanted portable music files on their computers and they got them where ever they could. movies, ebooks etc offer what they people really want and they will mostly buy the legal copies.
Even in somlia the piracy is an economic problem. 20 hijackers get a million plus dollars for 2-3 months of work. it breaks down to each getting some $20,000 who then spend that money on the locals $20,000 for three months work isn't bad by USA standards in somlia it worth a lot more. especially since one can't get harmed by international maritime law. They feed you a meal better than you have had in weeks, give you a quiet place to sleep while they detain you for a while and then let you go.
Solve the economic demand side of the product and realize that your not supplying things that there are honest markets for.
However windows users don't know what an MBR is or a bootloader.
Linux guys are used to having to hack their way to a desktop windows users just what to get to the place with all those icon thingies.
it is a standard MSFT tactic, announce something awesome and deliver something that is barely good enough. Not even slashdot is big enough to list every product MSFT has announced but failed to actually implement. It has been in use for so long it is the reason most people are tired of MSFT. It is also why the Opposite of MSFT Apple gets so much free press for product that they haven't even announced yet. Apple lets the rumor mill drive forward occasionally shutting down one source only to fuel the frenzy even more. However apple only announces real products with the feature sets fixed. (there are exceptions)
Next week MSFT engineers will announce an FTL drive coming in the next 10-20 years just to stay ahead of the stuff they have already promised.
There is a better device for that now. a much more advanced throat mic.http://focus.ti.com/pr/docs/preldetail.tsp?sectionId=594&prelId=sc08029
It records the signals that you actually send to the voice box and outputs that. It is less invasive and can be used in a VVOX setup to remote control objects without worrying that someone else will over hear the commands or try to shout commands for you.
shh go to game stop and buy the same game in the $5 bin. and guess what it comes with ZERO DRM.
So your saying the developers of developers tools on windows also are ignorant about limited user accounts. On any *nix I can install most apps in my own home directory with only my user rights for my use. Those apps can't then be used by others unless I allow it. On Windows every developer assumes you have full admin rights for all apps. That is a bad mindset and needs to be fixed at all levels of developers.
If they won't spend money on copper why would they spend more money on fiber?
does she have cable TV? if so then adding VOIP is as easy as plugging in a couple of boxes un hooking the phone lines from the telecom network and tying in the VOIP lines into the house phone grid. Add in a UPS to power the cable modem, and VOIP hub and you have the same as you do now. At least from grandma's point of view.
the pots line at my companies main office goes down every time it rains from the north east.
POTS lines are so bad that as they lose customers they just keep moving people to the inner lines as the copper goes bad. I knwo some sections of cities that can't get DSL even though they are 500 from the trunk. why? the copper is so bad and their neighbors have all the good lines already used up.
POTS is dying of old age and neglect.
isn't that the point? if the developers have to develop for a multi user and limited rights user OS they will actually build software that obeys those constraints.
I hold that windows isn't a true multi user OS until 90% of the software that runs on it can be used by a limited account. Look at any *nix. not only can you run one app under multiple users at the same time(something most windows app fail at) but all those apps are limited the privilieges of the user in question.
Yes there are apps that require different rights. but windows developers for the most part don't understand the difference between admin and limited accounts.
Maybe if they were forced to develop in such enviroments they would under the limits.
yea but with ebooks technically letting your wife read the book is illegal and wrong and she has to buy her own copy.
40 years from now your kids are all grown up, and you pass away in your sleep. As they go through your stuff, they pick up the tom clancy paper backs and think about how you used to read them. Or they find a non working ebook reader and the DRM prevents them from knowing what kind of books you liked to read.
Pick one. It will happen. no one lives for ever. Memories must be preserved some how. DRM laden technology will prevent it.
I got to use the driod last week. while there are some cool features, it doesn't beat my iphone by a far margin. The first being a responsive screen. It would take 2-3 tries to unlock the phone. the touch sensor just didn't want to hang on to the unlock bar as i slid my finger. There were a couple of cool apps, but the browser was slower to use(not the speed of the download which varies a lot no matter which provider you use.) but scrolling pages wasn't always smooth.
I have other nitpicks about the hardware(I don't like it feeling like a brick, just round the damn edges) however the software wouldn't pass a 0.5 release for an apple product. Apple wouldn't release the whole phone until after little things like a responsive interface is fixed first.
While AT&T annoy me, apple makes sure they get the little details right the first time. My current AT&T contract is up in 7 months. I will keep my eyes on andriod phones, however I do know one fact. Only apple is anal enough about interfaces to make them useable and consistent. No one else in the consumer industry even bothers to try. It is one reason why apple products tend to be smashing successes. and is usually why when they have failures, it is the cause.
a poorly tied and anchored noose?
I have one candy bar phone that has been dunked in water three times, and is still running strong enough that my mother uses it now daily. A cheap reliable form comes in multiple styles.
now I am careful to not dunk my iphone but even that has survived a 12 foot fall onto concrete with only a scratch on the case, okay maybe a slight dent. but no cracked screen.
Also my iphone isn't the companies but mine, I don't use it to check work related information unless I am actually getting paid by work to be there. the email is my own personal account.
While the tablet will be cool it is running iphoneOS which meansno flash. While not having flash is good for the small screened iPhone nothaving it on a larger device just wontgo over well.
How do I know it is running iphoneos? Apple putout a developers call to make sure iPhone apps wereusing resolution independant API and widgets. Dont assume the screensize is 320x240.
There is over a hundred different tax rates in NY state alone. The company I work for has seven different locations in seven different counties. Any one can come to us and buy stuff. However since we do somuch business around the state we have to deal with taxes to the point where one of our accountants (out of three) spends half of her week justkeeping it straight. Failure is expensive. You see when the state audits you they take a sample of errors made and multiply that by the number of years they go back. It doesn't matter if that sample is accurate. So multi million dollar fines are the norm.
If a local company has to hire a person just to manage the problem amazon will have to hire 100. Not that amazon can't but tax law is so complicated lawyers have given up trying to figure it out
sliders are 30% thicker, and you complexty in the form of the slide mechaism while stronger than flips is still a weak point.
there is a reason why it is called a brick.
hey designers the flip phone is so last century. The brick format is far superior, allowing larger screen size, larger batteries, and larger buttons. not to mention the abaility to push a button to accept a call, not to have to use both hands too open the damned thing.
flip phone suffer from breakage, and weak points in their overall designs(hinges can break) As much as I like retro old school toys please stop making them.
Not everyone likes the same things. I have owned several of each style and i always seem to fall back to brick phones.